Product brief
Loose Leaf Reader
A private study for your digital books.
At a glance
- What it does
- A local-first reader for your own DRM-free TXT, EPUB, and PDF, on Mac and iPhone.
- Status
- Pre-release. Coming to the App Store as Loose Leaf Reader, Mac and iPhone, universal purchase. No date yet.
- How to get it
- Coming to the App Store as Loose Leaf Reader for Mac and iPhone, universal purchase. No date yet. No direct download and no public waitlist on this page.
What you can do with it
- Import a file, drop one in, or paste a link to a PDF.
- Read DRM-free TXT, EPUB, and PDF. DRM-protected store purchases aren't supported. Loose Leaf Reader does not remove DRM.
- For plain text, it detects the encoding, strips Project Gutenberg boilerplate, and finds the chapters.
- Search the library, filter by genre, and sort. Shelves. Title, author, genres, and cover can be edited.
- Bookmarks. Highlights (TXT and EPUB). A table of contents, adjustable font size, and a saved position. Stream mode for TXT and EPUB.
- The reading view is a warm study.
Where it runs
- Native app for Mac and iPhone. No minimum OS version is stated on this page.
- Optional iCloud sync between Mac and iPhone (handled by Apple, using your Apple account). Loose Leaf Reader does not require an account of its own. Backup and restore are included. Sync to iPhone is in testing, and this is not a claim that the library syncs everywhere.
- looseleaf:// links open a book or a spot in Loose Leaf, on Mac and iPhone. The app handles them on the device.
Plain limits
- Not listed on the App Store yet, so this page has no badge and no store link.
- No price is stated, because no price has been published.
- Not an iPad, Windows, Android, or web app.
Privacy and support
Local-first. No tracking, no analytics, no account, no ads. Optional iCloud sync is handled by Apple. App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected. Privacy. Support. Contact support@l8a.dev.
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